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1975 Conference on Trans*

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Here’s one no one seems to know anything about… but maybe YOU know someone who knows something about this conference.

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Scotty Shand

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In early August 1978, Scotty Shand, an out gay man, was brutally murdered in Providence. His murder was never solved.

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Van Johnson: The Gay Boy Next Door

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Newport, RI’s own Van Johnson. (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) https://www.altfg.com/…/van-johnson-the-gay-boy-next-door/

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Life’s a Drag

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Before RuPaul’s Drag Race, local dragumentarians Lara Sebastian and Deb Thibault (Laura and Deb Thibault of Atomic Blonde Ice Cream) chronicled Sabrina Blaze, Stephen James

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Tish, the 95 year old drag queen from Pawtucket

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The Last Queen of Greenwich Village Joseph Touchette, who may be the oldest drag queen in New York City, has lived on the corner of

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Arthur Evans

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Original video footage of Arthur Evans and the 1971 Gay Activist Alliance zap at the NY Marriage License Bureau. As a Brown University student Evans

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Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman: “It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding

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Big J

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Anybody ever hear of a guy named Rhode Island Bad Boy “Big J”?

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Warhol in Providence

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In the summer of 1969, Andy Warhol curated a now infamous exhibit “Raid the Icebox I with Andy Warhol”. The exhibit consisted of an eclectic

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RI Lesbian history from March 1977

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